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Open-Source ATI R500 3D Milestone!

03-20-2008, 11:10 AM

Phoronix: Open-Source ATI R500 3D Milestone!

Coming just a day after AMD had opened up their production microcode from their proprietary drivers for the R100 to R600 GPUs, a significant milestone has been reached in the road to open-source 3D graphics capabilities for the Radeon X1000 (R500) series. We now have hardware-accelerated glxgears!

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When I realized what a mess ATI drivers were when I got my Dell Inspiron with the X1400 back in January 2007, I was very disappointed and swore off ATI, with the promise that I will never buy another ATI or AMD component again. I take that back. I am proud of ATI since they've changed face last September, and they are rather close to earning me back as a customer.

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When I realized what a mess ATI drivers were when I got my Dell Inspiron with the X1400 back in January 2007, I was very disappointed and swore off ATI, with the promise that I will never buy another ATI or AMD component again. I take that back. I am proud of ATI since they've changed face last September, and they are rather close to earning me back as a customer.

Indeed. That's my current take on things. It's still not there yet, but that's not because of ATI's doings, save indirectly (It took 'em long enough to get us data... ). In the end, I'm still not using ATI, not because they're not the choice- the support's not gelled enough yet. Until that's the story, I still can't tell someone to get one of AMD's GPUs yet.